Hidden inside chaldrons sit chaldrons and chlordans, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 371 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chaldrons and chlordans tie for the highest Scrabble score from chaldrons at 15 points. The top 10 of 371 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in chaldrons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chaldrons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chaldrons and chlordans, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaldrons. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chaldron and chlordan, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chaldrons produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anchors. For points, the strongest plays are chadors and chordal — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaldrons turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anchor, hoards, and nachos. For points, the strongest plays are chador, chards, chords, and schrod — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaldrons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cards, chaos and colas. For points, the strongest plays are chads, chard, and chord — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in chaldrons produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, cans and card. For points, the strongest play is chad — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chaldrons turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and ash. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chaldrons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ha and ho.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in chaldrons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chaldrons and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
chaldrons is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for chaldrons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
chaldrons is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chaldrons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chaldrons and chlordans, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chaldrons earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in chaldrons produce 371 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.